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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GEORGE WASHINGTON, by JOHN HALL INGHAM First Line: This was the man god gave us when the hour Last Line: The everlasting surges of the tide. Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) | |||
THIS was the man God gave us when the hour Proclaimed the dawn of Liberty begun; Who dared a deed, and died when it was done Patient in triumph, temperate in power, -- Not striving like the Corsican to tower To heaven, nor like great Philip's greater son To win the world and weep for worlds unwon, Or lose the star to revel in the flower. The lives that serve the eternal verities Alone do mould mankind. Pleasure and pride Sparkle awhile and perish, as the spray Smoking across the crests of cavernous seas Is impotent to hasten or delay The everlasting surges of the tide. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE LOSS OF HIS TEETH by DIANE WAKOSKI PATRIOTIC POEM by DIANE WAKOSKI HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON by PHILLIS WHEATLEY THE VOW OF WASHINGTON by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER ANDRE'S LAST REQUEST [OR, REQUEST TO WASHINGTON] [OCTOBER 1, 1780] by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS THE WASHINGTON BICENTENNIAL by CLARA BECK GEORGE WASHINGTON by LAURA REW BIXBY ON THE BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |
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